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The correspondence with the years 1941-42 was established by Christopher Tolkien in volume VII of _The History of Middle-earth_: Either while the making of

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The correspondence with the years 1941-42 was established by
Christopher Tolkien in volume VII of _The History of Middle-earth_:

"Either while the making of Time-scheme I was in progress or at some later
point my father wrote at the head of the first page of it: _Moons are after
1941-2 + 6 days_. He changed this to _+ 5 days_, and added: _thus Full Moon
Jan. 2 is Jan. 7_... The phases ... are ... regularly five days later than
those of 1941-2." (p. 369)

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| Carl F. Hostetter Aelfwine@...http://www.elvish.org |
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| ho bios brachys, he de techne makre. |
| Ars longa, vita brevis. |
| The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. |
| "I wish life was not so short," he thought. "Languages take |
| such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about." |
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